Ultrahigh-strength steel sheet

a technology of ultrahigh strength and steel sheet, applied in the direction of manufacturing tools, heat treatment apparatus, furnaces, etc., can solve the problems of poor workability and weldability required in the thin steel sheet, insufficient consideration of the use environment of thin steel sheet automobile parts, and poor productivity. , to achieve the effect of excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance, enhanced hydrogen embrittlement resistance, and improved coating corrosion resistan

Active Publication Date: 2009-09-24
KOBE STEEL LTD
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[0015]According to an ultrahigh-strength thin steel sheet according to a first embodiment of the invention shown below, when a component composition and the residual austenite in the steel sheet are controlled, with neither damaging the ductility (elongation) nor generating coarse carbide in the neighborhood of the grain boundary, the hydrogen embrittlement resistance is remarkably enhanced in an ultrahigh-strength region where the tensile strength is 980 MPa or more. Furthermore, when a content of Mo is reduced and B is added, the coating corrosion resistance is improved.
[0016]Furthermore, a ultrahigh-strength thin steel sheet excellent in the hydrogen embrittlement resistance is produced at excellent productivity and may be used, as a ultrahigh-strength part that is very difficult to cause the delayed fracture and so on, in automobile parts such as reinforcement materials such as a bumper and an impact beam, a seat rail, a pillar, a reinforcement and a me...

Problems solved by technology

However, in the technologies of non-patent documents 1 and 2, since the steel contains 0.4% by weight or more of C and many alloy elements, the workability and weldability required in the thin steel sheet are very poor, and, furthermore, since a precipitation heat treatment necessarily takes several hours or more to precipitate alloy carbide, the productivity as well is problematic.
However, a usage environment in automobile parts made of a thin steel sheet is not sufficiently considered.
Furthermore, in the technology of patent document 2, under such an environment where corrosion is actually generated and hydrogen is present, the trapping effect of the precipitates alone is not sufficient.
Still furthermore, when Cr is added, coarse inclusions (carbide) are generated in the TRIP steel (particularly in the neighborhood of the grain boundary), very hard cementite that causes crack during the proces...

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[0232]In what follows, first and second examples according to the first embodiment of the invention will be described.

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[0233]After steels (steel grades A to V) of which component compositions are shown in Table 1 were vacuum melted to form slabs, according to a procedure (hot rolling→cold rolling→continuous annealing) below, hot rolled steel sheets having a sheet thickness of 3.2 mm were obtained, followed by washing with acid to remove a surface scale, further followed by cold rolling to 1.2 mm, still further followed by continuously annealing as shown below, thereby, various kinds of steel sheets (experiment No. 1 to 23) were prepared.

[0234]Start Temperature: holding for 30 min at 1150 to 1250° C.

Finish Temperature: 850° C.

Cooling Speed: 40° C. / s

Winding Temperature: 550° C.

Cold Rolling Rate: 50%

[0235]Steel sheets of experiment No. 1 to 15, 17 to 19 and 21 to 23, after the cold rolling, were held at a temperature in the range of a Ac3 point (see Table 1) to the Ac3 point+30° C. for 120 sec, followed by quenching (air cooling) at an average cooling speed of 20° C. / s to a To° C. of Table 2, further f...

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[0259]After steels (steel grades 1 to 22) of which component compositions are shown in Table 5 were vacuum melted to form slabs, according to a procedure (hot rolling→cold rolling→continuous annealing) below, hot rolled steel sheets having a sheet thickness of 3.2 mm were obtained, followed by washing with acid to remove a surface scale, further followed by cold rolling to 1.2 mm, still further followed by continuously annealing as shown below, thereby, various kinds of steel sheets (experiment No. 24 to 46) were prepared.

[0260]Start Temperature: holding for 30 min at 1150 to 1250° C.

Finish Temperature: 850° C.

Cooling Speed: 40° C. / s

Winding Temperature: 550° C.

Cold Rolling Rate: 50%<

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[0261]Steel sheets of experiment No. 24 to 42, 44 and 45 were processed in such a manner that a cold rolled steel sheet was held at a temperature of a Ac3 point+30° C. for 120 sec, followed by quenching (air cooling) at an average cooling speed of 20° C. / s to To° C. shown in Tab...

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Abstract

The invention relates to an ultrahigh-strength thin steel sheet excellent in the hydrogen embrittlement resistance, the steel sheet including, by weight %, 0.10 to 0.60% of C, 1.0 to 3.0% of Si, 1.0 to 3.5% of Mn, 0.15% or less of P, 0.02% or less of S, 1.5% or less of Al, 0.003 to 2.0% of Cr, and a balance including iron and inevitable impurities; in which grains of residual austenite have an average axis ratio (major axis/minor axis) of 5 or more, the grains of the residual austenite have an average minor axis length of 1 μm or less, and the grains of the residual austenite have a nearest-neighbor distance between the grains of 1 μm or less.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The invention relates to an ultrahigh-strength thin steel sheet that is used as a steel sheet for automobiles and a steel sheet for transporting machineries, and, in particular, to an ultraultrahigh-strength thin steel sheet where fractures due to the hydrogen embrittlement such as the season cracking and delayed fracture that are problematic in particular in a steel sheet having the tensile strength of 980 MPa or more are inhibited from occurring.BACKGROUND ART[0002]So far, a high strength steel sheet has been used a lot in applications such as bolts, PC steel wires and line pipes, and, it is known that when the tensile strength becomes 980 MPa or more, due to intrusion of hydrogen into steel, the hydrogen embrittlement (such as the pickling embrittlement, plating embrittlement and delayed fracture) is caused. Compared with this, since a steel sheet thickness is thin, when hydrogen is intruded, hydrogen is released in a short time. Additionally, from the view p...

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IPC IPC(8): C22C38/00C22C38/42C22C38/22C22C38/18C22C38/20C22C38/40C22C38/04
CPCC21D1/20C22C38/50C21D2211/001C21D2211/002C21D2211/005C21D2211/008C22C38/005C22C38/06C22C38/08C22C38/12C22C38/14C22C38/16C22C38/22C22C38/24C22C38/26C22C38/32C22C38/34C22C38/38C22C38/42C22C38/44C22C38/46C21D9/48C22C38/002
Inventor KINUGASA, JUNICHIROYUSE, FUMIOMUKAI, YOICHIKOZUMA, SHINJIAKAMIZU, HIROSHIKASUYA, KOUJIIKEDA, MUNEAKISUGIMOTO, KOICHI
Owner KOBE STEEL LTD
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